Sisters of Slaanesh

Sisters of Slaanesh
Originally uploaded by K.A..

Some very nice models I had the pleasure of playing against. They're Sisters of Battle models, converted into something a little more Slaneeshi. The paintjob is crisp and smooth to say the least. One of the contenders for this year best painted in the tourneys, but Mortarions guys took the grand slam - won all three conventions. Well deserved too. I'll get into those guys a bit more later on once I get some decent shots of them.

You'll find a few more sisters in the shots from the nationals in my flickr collection (you'll get to it if you click on this picture)

The suckers

Photo from the not-quote SydCon 2005
Originally uploaded by K.A..

Suckers, or organizers, depend on your point of view. These guys did the 40k part of the championships. I must say that everything worked out rather well - the place worked out well, the food was there on time, the trash got emptied, there was no shortage of toilet paper, the list of matches were put up soon enough..

Nothing bad to point out means excellent work guys. Keep it up, was a pleasure to be there..

Photo from the not-quote SydCon 2005

I got the beer, guys..
Originally uploaded by K.A..

Post nationals, life is yet again starting to take form. After heading over to Gothenburg a few days early to touch base with my old cronies there, we went down to Lund - a small'ish university town in the south of Sweden. The place the nationals were held at was a tiny suburb outside of Lund. We managed to make at least one wrong turn every single time we tried to find our way out there again after getting some food.

I borrowed a Space Wolf army from Argos. He was highly amused when I told him I had apoligized about the seven (count 'em) powerfists in the army list before every single game. Managed to snag the 24'th place out of 44. Not too shabby considering it was a rather close-and-personal event with mainly the better players in the country.. (No, I'm not one of them)

I'll post pictures and stuff in the upcoming entries. I don't really have time - not inclination - to write up something gargantuan right now. However, it means I have material for quite a while, so check back every few days for an update..

The guy with the beer bottles would be one of the models from the Best Painted army, a Slaneeshi heavy metal bunch of marines made by 'Ooan. Said army won Best Painted at the three gaming cons that matter as far as 40k is concerned this year. Truly amazing stuff. You'll see more of them later on..

National championships coming up

Sorry for the relative quiet here lately. The updates here will be sporadic - sometimes several times a day, sometimes once a month. It ebbs and flows with my work load and other hobbies. If I have a lot of time and feel up to it, I get rather productive with the minis. Or, I might not be for a little while. You never know..

The national championships are next week though. I'm heading there, along with some guys from my old club in Gothenburg. Will bring a camera and get some shots of good looking mins for your perusal.

I just think it's sad I haven't found the time (or rather, motivation) to paint up some of my minis a bit better. They're about the same state as they were in last year - decent color scheme that's visible from far and quite.. stark.. compared to most other 40k armies, but the quality of the paintjob is, while quite allright, not the standard I'd like. Especially not consistently up to the standard I'd like..

Blogger images is broken (for me at least) so you'll have to make do with a link. Picked this blue/yellow one up at The Waagh discussion boards. Stunning work. I don't particularly care about some of the modelling ideas - ork+tau doesn't mix very well (in my book anyhow), and some of the imperial stuff is just a little bit overboard..

That said, the quality of the jobs is stunning and the paintwork is very, very, very neat. Definitely inspiring for my own attempts at shaping up the yellows a bit (which is also looking nicely I might add) One thing i particularly like is the beige'ish pants some of the orks have. Nice colors, will have to see if I can nick those for some details..

Work in progress, battlewagon

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Originally uploaded by K.A..

Detail shot of a piece I've been working on for two years or somesuch. It still needs a decent amount of painting until I think it's done good and proper. Kind of semi-low gaming quality at the moment, but I want all the details top notch or at least at an acceptable level before I move on from this bastard. Need it done by the end of the month though, so I better get a move on. This, plus the bikers, plus a dreadnought, plus a warboss backbanner and a nob.. yeah, should be doable.

Warboss

Warboss
Originally uploaded by K.A..

Ran across this thing on the net, to swap the focus from minis to general (ork) art. Made by a briton by the name of Matt Dixon (http://mattdixon.co.uk/) - definitely nice quality there. Seems he has some other few warhammer inspired bits and a decent amount of other random stuff in the portfolio as well..

Another treat for you, my readers. Yeah, all three of you. I did mention this a week ago already, but figured a picture would say a thousand words or so. These buggers are made by 'Ooan Westlund and there's plenty more good looking models where they come from.

Work prevents me from painting, but nothing says I can't take a break and update the blog a little bit. Ran into quite a nice Ork forum known as The Waagh the other day. Seems to have a nice atmosphere - definitely less crap than Warseer. Todays picture is blatantly stolen from a thread there. Model converted by Scarpia. Simple, yet pretty damn nice looking conversion. Guy managed to do something I never quote nailed - good looking rivets.

Biker group photo, closeup

Group photo, closeup
Originally uploaded by K.A..

This would be the work-in-progress ork bikers of mine. I need them wrapped in a month or so, so it's definitely time to get rocking on them. As opposed to most other pics on this blog, you're actually taken to Flickr if you click this one - to see some more Work in Progress shots of these guys.